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Live Blogging – the Economics of Religion in India
Live notes on Dr Sri Iyer’s talk about her book on the economics of religion in India, defining religion, surveying affiliation and median ages across faiths, and citing findings that…
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Untitled, 5 June 2019
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30 years since Tiananmen
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Hitchhiking through India-
Introduces a podcast with Rajat Ubhaykar, who hitchhiked six months through India, and says it left the host feeling an urban Hindu hegemonic outlook obscures India’s profound pluralism.
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Indian Americans “trump” Brit-Asians
Observes that Indian-Americans, though 1 per cent of the US, have seats at a business roundtable between the US President and the British PM, while British society stays invisibly white,…
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Browncast Ep 44: Game of Thrones, part 1
A BrownCast episode, the first of two, in which the host discusses the end of Game of Thrones with neuroscientist Adam Calhoun, with a follow-up planned with a geneticist and…
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Iranian Ghee
Prompted by a video on food in Kermanshah, the author argues that copious ghee explains why its cooking is so delicious, and that signature Iranian dishes are variants of Iraqi-Syrian…
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BJP slips on Hindi; Tamil Nadu stands firm
Quoting Garga Chatterjee on how Hindi was pushed against Urdu in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, the author argues that imposing Hindi is a bad idea and that Hindu nationalism, a many-headed…
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Browncast Episode 43: Indian Elections, the Aftermath, with Kushal Mehra
A BrownCast episode on the 2019 Indian election result with Kushal Mehra of the Carvaka Podcast, who thinks Modi’s win owed most to delivering benefits to the poorest, plus the…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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